[solved] How do I return values

Hi,
I’m having trouble using the snippets. I’m not a programmer by any means but I was able use the following code to display a form on a regular page when it’s not run through modx. When I try to make it work with snippets nothing even displays, i’m pretty sure it has something to do with returning values but I don’t know how to go about it.

Here’s what I have before any html
[tt]<?php

session_start();
require($DOCUMENT_ROOT.’/partyrsvp/func.php’);

$c = connect_db();

$output = "";

if($_POST[’submitted’] == "submitted" && ($_POST[’fname’] != "" || $_POST[’lname’] != "") && ctype_digit($_POST[’pid’]))
{
parsvp(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’fname’]),
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’lname’]),
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’phone’]),
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’email’]),
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’guests’]),
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’pid’]),
mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[’bday’]),
$id,
$c);

$output .= "Thank you. You have been RSVP’d for the party! See you there!";
}
else
{
$output .= addpar_form("1", $c);
}

close_db($c);

?>[/tt]

...And I stick this wherever I want the form displayed

[tt]<?=$output?>[/tt]

Do I have to create two different snippets for these two parts?
How can I make this work? Thank you in advance.

put in the only one snippet in the end return $output;
and call the snippet in a template...

Only try to avoid using short PHP tags as that can break in many situations.

Have the last action of your snippet be "return $output", then put the snippet tags where you want that output to appear, just as you normally would with the <?php...?> tags.

cool i got it working, thanks guys, really quick response